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assessments of them and sort of tried bring those two bodies one quantitative and one qualitative together to make a clear story. >> why did you decide to write the book in the first place? >> i was interested in the question of "why we fight" wars and how we explain those and that for me ermg emerge as most important elm of that. confederates far long time. particularly for lower and nonslave holding confederates. lower class. the argument has been it's a somewhat irrational war. doesn't make sense for them to fight and my arguement what i tell my students we have to give historical...

that's wha gets them in. my concern is why do they stay in. so the question is confederate psistence. >> in additio to taking a look at going into some of the diaries and other things, you take a quantitative look at who fought. what types of things did you come up with there? >> first thing is the standard argue system it's a rich man's war and poor man's fight. really a rich man's feig. rich counties overwhelmingly send hig numbers of men. in terms of correlation. you get a very strong correlation between wealth and slave holding and enlistment. theor wealth a county has the more s...